afferent

Afferent

adjective Referring to the centripetal movement of blood or nerve impulses—e.g., through the veins toward the heart, or nerves to the brain.noun A blood vessel or nerve that centripetally conveys flow or an impulse.

afferent

adjective

1. Conveying or transmitting.

2. Referring to the movement of blood or nerve impulses centrally–eg, through vessels toward the heart, or nerves to the brain, Cf Efferent.

Afferent

afferent

means 'going towards'. Describes nerves that carry impulses towards the central nervous system, or to relay stations outside it, from neural receptors (e.g. sensory nerves from the skin, those conveying proprioceptive information from muscles and joints or visceral afferents from internal organs). Also describes blood or lymph vessels in which flow is towards some point of reference, e.g. afferent arterioles to the glomeruli of the kidney. Opposite of efferent.

afferent

Carrying from the periphery to the central or the main structure. Seeefferent.

afferent

branches of the interlobular arteries of the kidney that supply the glomerular capillaries of the renal corpuscle.

afferent loop syndrome

chronic partial obstruction of the proximal loop (duodenum and jejunum) after gastrojejunostomy, resulting in duodenal distention, pain and nausea following ingestion of food.

afferent nerve

any nerve that transmits impulses from the periphery toward the central nervous system. See also neuron, afferent nerve fibers (below).

afferent nerve fibers

nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system carrying information to the brain and spinal cord. Their cell bodies are in ganglia and their telodendria in the central nervous system.

afferent nervous activity

the number of afferent nerve fibers that are activated by the stimulus. This depends on the number of receptive fields that are included in the zone being stimulated.

afferent system

the collective sensory fibers from all parts of the body.

Patient discussion about afferent

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